Mohamed Said

Review of Sioux Embedded Systems

In a 5-year career run, this was my worst experien...

In a 5-year career run, this was my worst experience of all time. I would warn expats who are not hired on a project to be very careful.

Here's my story:
I was hired as software test engineer with a permanent contract, after successful interviews with 5 persons, 3 of which are test experts with the least of them having 16+ years of experience.

I worked as a VIP for one of the projects but my role was actually tool development for automation of test execution. I was asked for a proof of concept, but I gave them a fully working test automation tool 2 weeks earlier than their estimation. All I ever heard from the team was "great work", "good job", "that is how it should work".

Then surprisingly I had my first meeting with my temporarily newly hired manager on last day of my probation period to tell me they would like to terminate my contract immediately, and that the team is already aware of that decision.

His reasons where "quality level is not what expected from test engineer" and "being introvert in the team", after my shock I said that I never worked as a test engineer and I was not introvert, I socialized with every team member and never missed a team's event. His response was "sorry for inconvenience".

Either that manager is bluffing to get rid of me, or someone was telling me good job to my face and giving him negative feedback that was never known by me at any stage. I accepted the contract termination because I was shocked and did not feel it is a good environment to work at with people talking behind my back.

Positive points were IT and secretary because they were friendly and helpful. All other technically working people are trying to be international and open-minded with expats but it just did not feel right. Every moment I was reminded implicitly that I'm "different" not necessarily on purpose.

As a compensation they paid 30% of my salary for one month, and kept mentioning "they do not have to do this", to add up to 70% that should be paid by uwv.

I'm glad it was only 2 months for me, and I don't regret because I got to develop a complete tool through which I got creative a lot and enlarged my skill set.

After 2 months from that incident, I was contacted by someone from sioux for an exit interview..I shared the above feedback with him and he said "now it is consistent with what he was told".